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Why is outlook so bad1/31/2023 ![]() ![]() One view advanced by the US economist Robert Gordon is that the advanced world in recent years has essentially come to the end of a long era of technologically-driven productivity growth that began in the industrial revolution and that the lower rates we are experiencing today are the new normal. Yet productivity growth has also been weak by historic standards across the developed world since the global financial crisis and official forecasters have been reducing their projections for many countries, not just the UK. ![]() Some blame the ready availability of low-skilled migrant labour from the EU.Īnd it is true that something is particularly awry here in Britain, where the level of productivity has long been worse than peer economies such as France, Germany and the US. ![]() Some explanations are UK-specific such as historic under-investment in workers’ skills here, an excessively flexible British labour market, an unusually sclerotic domestic banking sector, or even damagingly loose monetary policy from the Bank of England that has kept low-productivity “zombie” firms alive. ![]()
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Enhanced first person fallout 41/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Unlike most remaking efforts, however, Project Arroyo has a unique challenge to contend with: Fallout 2’s presentation and map design no longer hold up, especially through that new perspective. The effort, which currently boasts around fifty members, has been ongoing since September 2018. ![]() The existence of Project Arroyo, a modding project that aims to recreate Fallout 2, which was isometric, using Fallout 4’s first-person engine, is no surprise - classics are remade and given a new life all the time. In the wake of Fallout 4’s more action-oriented approach, and Fallout 76’s mixed reception, it’s no wonder that, over twenty years later, there’s still interest in revisiting the California wasteland. Players were able to approach problems however they’d like, and the game took great care in giving fans creative options to solve missions, like talking your way out of the final boss battle. ![]() ![]() When Fallout 2 was released in 1998, the post-apocalyptic role-playing game was widely considered a masterpiece thanks to its open-ended gameplay. ![]() |